D22AP00223

Under the Illinois Oil and Gas Act, 225 ILCS 725, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources administers the Oil and Gas Well Site Plugging and Restoration Program, the Landowner Grant Program, and the Plugging and Restoration Fund. Through these programs, the Department is empowered to make expenditures of amounts appropriated from the Plugging and Restoration Fund, as it may deem appropriate in its sole discretion, for the sole purposes of plugging, replugging, or repairing any well, restoring the site of any well, including but not limited to removal of well site equipment or production facilities, and for reimbursement to landowners for plugging a well and restoring the site of a well, including but not limited to removal of well site equipment located on the landowner's property, for which the landowner has no legal obligation to plug the wells or remove the well site equipment, if the well is determined by the Department to be abandoned or ordered by the Department to be plugged, replugged, repaired, or restored under Section SA, 19, 19 1, or 19 8 of this Act. This includes the costs of administering the Oil and Gas Well Site Plugging and Restoration Program, the Plugging and Restoration Fund, and the Landowner Grant Program (225 ILCS 725 19 6L Section G).

Illinois has four thousand, four hundred and thirteen (4413) wells that have been documented and placed in the Oil and Gas Well Site Plugging and Restoration Fund (PRF) program, which is administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Oil and Gas Resource Management. Illinois will use not less than 90 percent of the twenty-five million dollars requested to issue new contracts, amend existing contracts, or issue grants for plugging, remediation, and reclamation work to address the abandoned and orphaned wells placed in the PRF program.

Illinois Department Of Natural Resources

PLUG AND REMEDIATE OR RECLAIM ORPHANED WELLS ON STATE AND PRIVATE LANDS. ENHANCE THE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AND PROPERTY FROM ORPHANED WELLS ON STATES AND PRIVATE LANDS. TO IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERIZE UNDOCUMENTED ORPHANED WELLS ON STATE AND PRIVATE LANDS REMEDIATE LAND ADJACENT TO ORPHANED WELLS AND DECOMMISSION OR REMOVE ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVE LAND HEALTH.

15.018 - Energy Community Revitalization Program (ECRP)

Interior Business Center (IBC) [DOI]

Illinois United States

State-Wide

D-AQD-FA-22-003

Infrastructure $18,966,577 (100%) percent this Project Grant was funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Act.
Amendment Since initial award the End Date has been extended from 09/30/23 to 12/31/24 and the total obligations have decreased 24% from $25,000,000 to $18,966,577.